How clinical exposure improves dental students' understanding of oral and maxillofacial surgery: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: To assess dental students' understanding of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) practice areas and examine changes in referral preferences across their educational progression in Israel.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 349 dental students from two Israeli universities (46.5% response rate).

Factors associated with sleep quality among Afghan healthcare workers.

Background And Aims: Sleep is a complex physiological process during which the body and mind enter a period of rest. For a healthy lifestyle, different cohort groups can be affected in different ways. One such cohort is healthcare workers (HCWs)-an unexplored group in Afghanistan.

Chondrocytes supplemented to bone graft-containing scaffolds expedite cranial defect repair.

Critical maxillofacial bone fractures do not heal spontaneously, thus, often there is a need to facilitate repair via surgical intervention. Gold standard approaches, include the use of autologous bone graft, or devices supplemented with osteogenic growth factors and bone substitutes. This research aimed to employ a critical size calvaria defect model, to determine if the addition of chondrocytes to collagen-containing bone graft substitute, may expedite bone repair.

A trespasser from a foreign land? A case report of primary mucosal leishmaniasis.

Background: We report a clinically challenging and unusual case of L. donovani oral mucosal leishmaniasis.

Case Presentation: Israeli resident with a former travel to central and North Africa, with no documented or prior cutaneous lesions presented with oral lesions of the maxillary gingiva and the upper lip.

Trigeminal Neuropathy After Mandibular Fractures: Epidemiology and Neurophysiologic Diagnosis.

Objectives: To study the trigeminal nerve neuropathy prevalence after mandibular fractures and follow nerve recovery and to examine associations with clinical features.

Subjects: The files of 304 patients treated for 424 mandibular fractures in Hadassah Medical Center between 2001 and 2008 were analyzed. Twenty-five patients with paresthesia were examined by electro-diagnostic conduction test (quantitative sensory testing).

Evaluation of three analysis methods for Tc MDP SPECT scintigraphy in the diagnosis of unilateral condylar hyperplasia.

The aims of the study were to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and utility of the mean region of interest (ROI) and mean and maximum volume of interest (VOI) analysis methods for Tc MDP SPECT scintigraphy in the diagnosis of active unilateral condylar hyperplasia (UCH). Inactive UCH (n=43) and active UCH (n=8) patients, and patients without condylar hyperplasia (controls, n=41) were analyzed. Inter-observer agreement was good for all methods.